REFLECTOR: Electric Velocity

[Al Gietzen]

Magic!  Roughly same canard and wing span as the Velocity SE, more than 1000
lbs heavier empty weight; yet a lower wing loading than the Velocity. And a
gross weight of 3800 lbs, but the wing loading in "landing configuration"
magically drops to 12.9 lbs/ft-sq?  Must be a second set of wings that
extend for landing.
 
Or; maybe I'm just missing something.
 
Al

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:59 PM
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Subject: REFLECTOR: Electric Velocity



I was just perusing my new Popular Science magazine, and noticed that they
have a story on an Electric version of the Velocity  from a company called
Volta Volaire.  http://www.voltavolare.com/  The website shows it to have
twin tails similar to that firefly model from Korea. Not sure how far along
they are, but they are making claims of 300 mile range on battery power and
it will have a small gas powered genset to extend the range to something
more useable. I am not even sure if Velocity is aware of the folks- never
heard them mentioned, but they did take pics from Velocities site and modify
them...

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